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At a later meeting, talking thru cigarette smoke in a noisy hotel bar, he knockd on the table between us:“This is poetry. Language is here –in the street, in the mud, in the shop, in the kitchen, in the mkt, the discussions, in everyday life. And you can make poetry out of this.”

The new law, which is going to be discussed tomorrow at the Israeli parliament and has a high likelihood of passage, will turn Israel’s prisons into “legalized killing grounds” and “an extension of a multi-pronged system of genocide.”

🇵🇸 A film dating to the year 1896 in Palestine, before the mass invasion of settlers, describes the land being inhabited 85% by Muslims, 10% by Christians and 5% by Jews, 50% of whom living in Jerusalem and all of them speaking Arabic at home.

More footage of the elderly woman who was handcuffed and arrested by the Met Police yesterday for opposing genocide and supporting Palestine Action. I’ve heard that some police officers have told their bosses they don’t want to do this work. I don’t blame them, it’s ghastly.

Driving through a city SHOULD be inconvenient if you're driving at the same time as everyone else. Space is limited, and motor vehicles take up a ton of space. Over time they keep getting bigger. Autobesity is a burden on everyone.

Benjamin Netanyahu goes fully psychotic and tells the world that he will single-handedly change the entire face of the Middle East, and that Israel will attack any country at any time. “We will surprise them instead of them surprising us.” “We are the attacking side. We are the initiating side.” “We take the initiative. We attack.”

new, freshly planted public space coming along at the bottom of St John Street. opposite Smithfield Market. New one-way restrictions, cycle lane, trees and space for people. Getting rid of on-street parking spaces can be so appealing

Please re read my tweet Mehdi. My argument is that Polanski has allowed the Green Party to be usurped by radical Islamists. He has done so for cynical and self serving reasons (I’m sure he doesn’t personally think ‘jews are an abomination’ or that homosexuality should be punished by death, or that women should be punished for dancing). But the result of his calculation is, among other things, scenes of Green Party members aligning themselves with one of the worst regimes on earth, of Deputy leader Mothin Ali being pictured surrounded by Iranian Flags, & voluminous examples of ‘Greens’ using language about Jews (not Israelis) that would have been familiar in 1930s Germany but taboo only a few years ago in the UK. You will have seen the above and more besides, but are of course free to pretend otherwise

Trump could stop this war within 24 hours. But he doesn't and the clowns he's appointed to serve him seem to restrict their activities to flattery and doing his bidding. Can't remember the US leadership in such a bad way. As for MBS, Sisi and the UAE gang they could not even pressure Israel not to close the al Aqsa mosque for Eid, leave alone doing anything to stop the war. It would be great if the dam finally brok and these regimes were toppled. As for Israel, the leaders should be captured and locked up indefintely.